Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 43 14
Rank change year-on-year +13 -29 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 311 227 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.13% 5.91% 8.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.48% 35.80% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 211 89 184
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,195 £38,734
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,000 £92,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,092 634 1,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.51% 16.50% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 860 379 773
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,900
25th Percentile £47,188 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,125
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.75% -1.46%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire +8 158 £63,750 -1.92% 221
Berkshire +10 104 £60,000 +26.26% 176
Buckinghamshire -19 49 £52,500 -4.55% 69
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.25%) Confluence
1 7 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.29%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.29%) SAS
3 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.93%) Lightworks
3 4 (1.29%) Mathematica
3 4 (1.29%) Simulink
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.32%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (1.93%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 108 (34.73%) AWS
1 108 (34.73%) Azure
2 38 (12.22%) Power Platform
3 28 (9.00%) GitHub
4 27 (8.68%) Azure Sentinel
5 21 (6.75%) Azure AI
6 18 (5.79%) GCP
6 18 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (4.50%) Cloudflare
9 13 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.86%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (3.86%) Serverless
11 11 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (2.57%) dbt
12 8 (2.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.29%) DNS
2 29 (9.32%) Firewall
3 17 (5.47%) VPN
4 14 (4.50%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.22%) Wireless
6 9 (2.89%) DHCP
6 9 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (2.57%) SSL
8 7 (2.25%) VLAN
9 6 (1.93%) HTTP
9 6 (1.93%) MQTT
10 5 (1.61%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.64%) IPv4
11 2 (0.64%) IPv6
11 2 (0.64%) SNMP
11 2 (0.64%) Software-Defined Radio
11 2 (0.64%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.32%) DNSSEC
12 1 (0.32%) Network Security
12 1 (0.32%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.58%) Power BI
2 30 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.47%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.82%) Metadata
5 14 (4.50%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (4.18%) SQL Server
6 13 (4.18%) Tableau
7 11 (3.54%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.54%) Star Schema
8 9 (2.89%) Amazon QuickSight
8 9 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.89%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (2.25%) MySQL
9 7 (2.25%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.93%) Airbyte
11 4 (1.29%) Redis
12 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.96%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 43 (13.83%) Git
2 13 (4.18%) GitLab
2 13 (4.18%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.89%) JMeter
3 9 (2.89%) JUnit
4 8 (2.57%) JIRA
4 8 (2.57%) LabVIEW
4 8 (2.57%) Mockito
5 4 (1.29%) PetaLinux
6 3 (0.96%) MLflow
6 3 (0.96%) Mocha
6 3 (0.96%) Selenium
7 2 (0.64%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.64%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.32%) Polyspace
8 1 (0.32%) Storybook
8 1 (0.32%) VectorCAST
General
1 101 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (10.61%) Manufacturing
4 29 (9.32%) Finance
5 19 (6.11%) Aerospace
6 16 (5.14%) Retail
7 12 (3.86%) Electronics
7 12 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.22%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.57%) Automotive
11 7 (2.25%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.61%) Legal
13 4 (1.29%) Banking
13 4 (1.29%) Marketing
14 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.64%) Aviation
15 2 (0.64%) Law
15 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (27.97%) Software Engineer
2 74 (23.79%) Python Engineer
3 65 (20.90%) Senior
4 60 (19.29%) Python Software Engineer
5 44 (14.15%) C++ Software Engineer
6 35 (11.25%) Analyst
7 28 (9.00%) C# Software Engineer
8 26 (8.36%) AWS Engineer
9 25 (8.04%) AWS Software Engineer
10 23 (7.40%) Data Engineer
11 20 (6.43%) Developer
11 20 (6.43%) Java Engineer
12 18 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (5.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 16 (5.14%) Network Engineer
14 15 (4.82%) Security Analyst
15 14 (4.50%) Systems Engineer
16 13 (4.18%) Data Analyst
17 12 (3.86%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 12 (3.86%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.25%) React
2 20 (6.43%) Terraform
3 15 (4.82%) Django
3 15 (4.82%) REST
4 14 (4.50%) JSON
5 12 (3.86%) HTML
5 12 (3.86%) Node.js
5 12 (3.86%) XML
6 11 (3.54%) Spring Boot
7 10 (3.22%) PySpark
7 10 (3.22%) Spring
7 10 (3.22%) Vue
8 9 (2.89%) Hibernate
9 8 (2.57%) ActiveMQ
9 8 (2.57%) Apache Camel
9 8 (2.57%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.57%) jQuery
9 8 (2.57%) WireMock
10 7 (2.25%) RESTful
10 7 (2.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.36%) Distributed Computing
2 18 (5.79%) Security Operations Centre
3 17 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (4.82%) Cloud Native
5 15 (4.82%) Product Ownership
6 14 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.22%) Embedded Systems
7 10 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.22%) Robotics
8 9 (2.89%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.89%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (2.89%) IoT
9 8 (2.57%) Fibre Optics
9 8 (2.57%) PKI
10 7 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.93%) CSOC
11 6 (1.93%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.93%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.93%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 69 (22.19%) Linux
2 37 (11.90%) Windows
3 7 (2.25%) Debian
4 4 (1.29%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.96%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.96%) Gentoo
5 3 (0.96%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (35.05%) Software Engineering
2 95 (30.55%) AI
3 87 (27.97%) CI/CD
4 86 (27.65%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (20.58%) Agile
6 50 (16.08%) DevOps
7 48 (15.43%) Business Intelligence
8 47 (15.11%) Analytics
9 43 (13.83%) Machine Learning
10 39 (12.54%) Data Modelling
11 37 (11.90%) Computer Science
12 34 (10.93%) SIEM
13 33 (10.61%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (9.65%) Mentoring
16 29 (9.32%) Cybersecurity
17 28 (9.00%) Data Engineering
17 28 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 27 (8.68%) Finite Element Analysis
18 27 (8.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 78 (25.08%) C++
2 75 (24.12%) SQL
3 60 (19.29%) C#
4 45 (14.47%) JavaScript
5 44 (14.15%) Java
6 43 (13.83%) PowerShell
7 35 (11.25%) TypeScript
8 34 (10.93%) Bash
9 17 (5.47%) MATLAB
10 15 (4.82%) Go
11 13 (4.18%) C
12 11 (3.54%) Rust
12 11 (3.54%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.57%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (1.61%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.29%) Ruby
16 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.96%) R
17 1 (0.32%) Haskell
17 1 (0.32%) Julia
Qualifications
1 82 (26.37%) Degree
2 44 (14.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 43 (13.83%) Security Cleared
4 39 (12.54%) SC Cleared
5 30 (9.65%) Master's Degree
6 24 (7.72%) PhD
7 22 (7.07%) Azure Certification
8 15 (4.82%) CompTIA Security+
9 11 (3.54%) CISSP
10 7 (2.25%) CompTIA CySA+
11 6 (1.93%) GCIA
11 6 (1.93%) GIAC
11 6 (1.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (1.61%) CCNA CyberOps
12 5 (1.61%) CEH
13 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.64%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.64%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.29%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.82%) GDPR
3 14 (4.50%) QA
4 9 (2.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.29%) ECSS
7 4 (1.29%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.96%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.64%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.64%) NIST
10 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.32%) IASME
10 1 (0.32%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 42 (13.50%) Docker
2 18 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.47%) Hyper-V
4 14 (4.50%) Active Directory
5 10 (3.22%) KVM
6 6 (1.93%) vSphere
7 2 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.64%) Firmware
7 2 (0.64%) iptables
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (13.50%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.82%) Graylog
3 12 (3.86%) Grafana
4 11 (3.54%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.89%) Kibana
6 8 (2.57%) Proxmox
6 8 (2.57%) ZABBIX
7 6 (1.93%) Ansible
7 6 (1.93%) Argo
8 4 (1.29%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.29%) Podman
9 3 (0.96%) Istio
10 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.64%) Nagios
11 1 (0.32%) QRadar
11 1 (0.32%) WMI
Vendors
1 68 (21.86%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.79%) VMware
3 12 (3.86%) Splunk
4 11 (3.54%) Databricks
5 10 (3.22%) CrowdStrike
6 9 (2.89%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.89%) Informatica
6 9 (2.89%) Talend
6 9 (2.89%) Thales
7 8 (2.57%) Veeam
8 6 (1.93%) New Relic
9 5 (1.61%) Cisco
9 5 (1.61%) Darktrace
9 5 (1.61%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.29%) Foundry
10 4 (1.29%) IBM
10 4 (1.29%) Palantir
10 4 (1.29%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.29%) Xilinx